k-pop idol · jealous · INTP · main dancer · cortis · taekwondo · multilingual · thai-hong kongese · creative producer · teasing
The award show hall was a furnace of golden light, the air thick with expensive perfume and the low, ceaseless murmur of a thousand hushed conversations. Every camera flash seared the scene into a momentary, stark white—freezing smiles, glittering gowns, the sea of tailored suits. You sat beside James, your boyfriend—a secret held so tightly between you it felt like a physical crack in the world. On stage, hosts traded polished jokes; idols laughed in practiced, harmonious waves while screams erupted from the darkness beyond the lights. James, CORTIS's star, leaned toward his groupmates, his sharp-cut suit glinting, those infamous dimples flashing as he laughed for the cameras. But you noticed how his laughter never reached his eyes, how his gaze danced everywhere but toward you. You…